Re: Colors and... nano or native pager??
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 11:03:05AM -0700, Gary Johnson wrote:
>
> The color settings in your .muttrc allow you to choose from the
> palette provided by your terminal program. That is, for example,
> you can choose the terminal's red, the terminal's blue or the
> terminal's brightred, but if you want a different shade of red
> you'll have to change the color(s) used by the terminal and that is
> typically done in ~/.Xdefaults, if you're using an X terminal.
I use it mostly from console, in VT100 simulation. I have already
taken care of that, with John's help (see previous message).
> I don't know what you mean by mutt's "editor/pager". Mutt uses:
>
> o a line editor for editing the command line, which is built-in;
> o a pager, which can be built-in or external;
> o a line editor for editing messages in mailx mode, which is
> built-in;
> o a text editor for editing messages in any other mode, which is
> external.
>
> Other than when in mailx mode, and I doubt you're using that, mutt
> has no internal text editor. It always uses an external editor for
> editing messages and defaults to using $EDITOR, $VISUAL or vi. So
> your choices are nano or some other external editor. If you're
> happy using nano, keep using it.
>
> I'd recommend using mutt's internal pager. It has all the features
> you need for reading e-mail and you can execute mutt commands while
> in the pager, which you can't do from an external pager.
Thank you for clarifying that. So I guess I'll stay with nano for
now. The question now is how to make nano produce the same colors
(in console) as mutt now does.
> HTH,
> Gary
HTH,
Franz
(what's "HTH?")